In this essay I am going to be exploring the different views of how the roles of men and women have changed in the past 50 years and whether it has been significant, my reason for this is to discuss how far sociologist would agree or disagree with these different views. Young and Willmott (1973) believe that the symmetrical family has become the typical family form in Britain; they believe that gender segregation still exist but symmetrical families are developing much more joint conjugal roles and that there has been a large amount of equality between men and women. ... In her own research...

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Although the male characters generally fail to notice or refuse to acknowledge women's authority and influence openly, they are affected by it. ... First, it is important to point out that both Olivia and Viola are women who enjoy certain social privileges relative to other women as a benefit of their social class, an issue that is important, particularly in the context of Twelfth Night, and which is often overlooked throughout the body of Shakespeare criticism. Although being of the aristocratic class permits both women some freedoms that poorer women did not enjoy, it also imposes an ex...

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(Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender, and heavily focuses upon "uncovering, assessing and responding to the victimisation of women and, in particular, men's violence against women" (Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). Subsequently, the field of feminist victimology includes women in what has traditionally been male-dominated research. ... Moreover, it became evident that women were fundamentally presumed guilty until proven innocent. ... Therefore, despite its use of quantitative and empirical research, this perspective of vict...

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